If you run a commercial cleaning company, you already know the real bottleneck usually isn't getting interest. It's what happens in the first hour after a facility manager fills out your form or picks up the phone. Research from Harvard Business Review found that companies responding within an hour of an inquiry were about seven times more likely to qualify the lead as those waiting longer. Meanwhile, ISSA research cited by industry vendors suggests cleaning businesses lose a large share of leads to follow-up that takes more than five minutes. That's a brutal gap when a single recurring contract can be worth thousands per year. AI SDR tools close that gap. They answer inquiries in seconds, qualify the buyer, handle objections, and book the walkthrough on your calendar, nights and weekends included. We compared six options that commercial cleaning operators can realistically put to work in 2026, from a done-for-you growth partner to cleaning-specific AI platforms and general outbound agents. Here's how they stack up.
#1 Worqd — Contact for pricing. Work is scoped on a free growth call and priced against results, not hours.
Worqd isn't another tool you log into and configure yourself. It's an AI-powered growth agency, owned and operated by AIQ Labs out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, that runs the whole path from first click to booked call as one retainer-style partnership. Instead of hiring one vendor for ads, another for creative, and a third for follow-up, you get one plan and one report. That matters for cleaning operators who don't have a marketing department and don't want one. The piece most relevant here is their AI SDR and lead conversion work. When a facility manager inquires, Worqd's AI SDR and AI voice agents answer, qualify, and book the moment interest arrives, in under 60 seconds, 24/7 including after-hours and weekends. If a call needs a human, it gets handed to a real person with full context, using your calendar and your rules. Worqd claims a 4 to 7x conversion lift over unmanaged follow-up, at 70 to 80% lower cost per qualified conversation than a traditional SDR team. There's also pipeline recovery: they reactivate the old leads already sitting in your CRM, and you only pay for the conversations that come back. No platform switch required, since it works with your existing CRM.
Pros
- Every inquiry qualified in under 60 seconds, including nights and weekends
- One partner covers ads, creative, follow-up, and lead reactivation, so nothing falls between vendors
- Pipeline recovery works with your existing CRM, no platform switch
- Clear anti-fabrication policy: no invented numbers or testimonials
- Free growth call to scope the work before you commit
Cons
- No published pricing, so you need to book a call to get numbers
- It's an agency relationship, so operators who want a self-serve dashboard won't find that here
Best for: Commercial cleaning operators and other service businesses that want one partner handling lead generation, instant follow-up, and creative testing instead of juggling several vendors.
#2 Chase by ChaseLabs — From $39/month base plus $250 per meeting, paid only when a qualified prospect shows up. Enterprise plans are custom.
Chase is an AI SDR built specifically for commercial cleaners, and that focus shows. According to their website, Chase scans a database of 95M+ verified business contacts to find the facilities managers, office managers, and property teams who actually award cleaning contracts in your service area, then reaches out with messages written from research on each prospect's building and situation. It handles the full loop: prospecting, personalized outreach, reply nurturing, and booking site visits straight into your Google or Microsoft calendar. Chase also manages the sending infrastructure, suggesting secondary domains, spawning AI agents with their own mailboxes, and handling DNS, SPF, DKIM, and warmup automatically. The pricing model is unusual and worth a look: a $39/month base plus a $250 success fee that you pay only when a qualified prospect actually shows up. No retainers or minimums on the standard plan.
Pros
- Purpose-built for commercial cleaning, with buyer targeting aimed at facilities managers
- Pay only when a qualified prospect shows up
- Handles sending infrastructure and deliverability for you
- Autonomous nurture keeps busy facilities managers warm until contract review
Cons
- Outbound-focused, so it doesn't manage your inbound ad spend or creative testing
- Success-fee model can add up quickly if meetings book at volume
Best for: Commercial cleaning companies that want cleaning-specific outbound AI with pay-per-meeting pricing instead of a retainer.
#3 CleanWork — Contact for pricing. Their site describes it as a small yearly investment but does not publish exact figures.
CleanWork takes a different angle: it's an AI platform built just for cleaning businesses, with a team of AI workers that handle tasks across the whole operation. Their Lead Generation Expert builds targeted lead lists, writes persuasive cold emails and replies, sends follow-up emails to get responses, and drafts emails to set up walkthrough appointments. Beyond lead gen, CleanWork sends cleaning opportunities like office cleaning and construction cleanups to your inbox by state, lets you find local decision makers with contact info, and lets you post your own opportunities to reach subcontractors. It also includes autopilot follow-up emails that go out when leads don't open or respond, plus cleaning contract calculators and lead list management. Customer testimonials on their site mention securing contracts within the first week of signing up, though individual results always vary.
Pros
- Built exclusively for cleaning businesses, so templates and features fit the industry
- Combines lead generation with bidding, SEO, and task management in one place
- Opportunity feeds surface contract openings you might otherwise miss
- Simple enough for owner-operators without a sales team
Cons
- It's more of a do-it-yourself toolkit than a done-for-you service, so you still run the outreach
- Pricing isn't published
- Several AI workers, including the SEO and social media specialists, are listed as coming soon
Best for: Small and growing cleaning companies that want an affordable, cleaning-specific AI assistant for lead lists, outreach, and day-to-day tasks.
#4 Cohesive AI — $500/month plus a one-time $75 setup fee, with a guarantee of at least four interested responses per month or a free month.
Cohesive AI is a lead generation platform tailored for local service businesses, with janitorial companies called out as a core use case. According to their blog, it automates the prospecting process end to end: scraping data from sources like Google Maps and government filings, filtering prospects against your ideal customer profile, building targeted lists, writing personalized emails, managing campaigns, and running follow-up sequences. It can run three campaigns at once, so a cleaning company could target office buildings, medical facilities, and retail spaces simultaneously with messaging tuned to each. It also handles email deliverability, including domain reputation and anti-spam compliance, and includes a built-in CRM with export options for popular external CRMs. Pricing is published at $500 per month plus a one-time $75 onboarding fee, with no long-term contracts and a performance guarantee of at least four interested responses per month or the next month is free.
Pros
- Fully automated model, from data scraping through follow-up sequences
- Published pricing with no long-term contracts
- Performance guarantee reduces the risk of a slow first month
- Multi-campaign support lets you target several property types at once
Cons
- Email-centric, with no voice agent for inbound calls
- You still need to close the replies yourself; it books conversations, not walkthroughs
- $500/month may be steep for operators under $500K in revenue
Best for: Janitorial and local service businesses that want fully automated email prospecting with published, predictable pricing.
#5 AiSDR — From $250/month (Solo tier), with tiers at $900 and $2,500 per month.
AiSDR is a general-purpose AI SDR agent focused on outbound, and it earns a spot here for cleaning companies that want high-quality email and LinkedIn outreach without hiring a rep. According to their website, AiSDR finds people in real time across the web who have problems you can solve, then reaches out with messages written individually using research on each prospect. The company positions itself against volume blasting: it won't send a message without a reason, and it optimizes for meetings that actually show up rather than activity counts. Case studies on their site include a 32% reply-to-demo rate and a 29-meetings-in-30-days campaign, though those results come from other industries. Their Live AI search lets you describe who you want in plain English, and it builds a fresh list on the spot. It integrates with CRMs so every interaction syncs back to the contact record.
Pros
- Transparent published pricing starting at $250/month
- Research-driven personalization rather than template merges
- Fast campaign setup, often within an hour per their user reviews
- Works for warm leads and cold outreach alike
Cons
- Not cleaning-specific, so you supply the industry knowledge and messaging angles
- Email and LinkedIn only, no voice agent for inbound calls
- You still need to run the walkthrough and close the contract yourself
Best for: Cleaning companies with someone who can take meetings and want transparent, low-cost outbound AI they can set up fast.
#6 Dapta — Contact for pricing.
Dapta is a voice-first AI SDR, and that's the reason it makes this list. Most AI SDRs stop at email and LinkedIn sequences, which means a facility manager who fills out your quote form at 8 PM still waits for a human to call back. Dapta calls in seconds instead. According to their site, when a lead fills out a form or lands in your CRM, Dapta places a call, holds a natural conversation, qualifies against your ideal customer profile, and books the meeting on the right rep's calendar in the same interaction. Every call, transcript, and outcome logs back to your CRM in real time, and it covers voice, email, SMS, and WhatsApp. Setup runs through their agent Dapti: you describe your ideal lead and calendar rules in plain words, and it builds and tests the AI SDR for you. Published case studies include a company that booked 3x more meetings and cut cost per qualified lead by 50%, though again, those are from other industries.
Pros
- Closes the speed-to-lead gap with calls in seconds, not hours
- Books the meeting in the same conversation, so leads don't leak at scheduling
- Multichannel reach beyond email
- No-code setup a non-technical owner can handle
Cons
- General-purpose tool, so you'll write the cleaning-specific qualification rules yourself
- Pricing isn't published
- No built-in ad management or creative production; it handles conversion, not demand
Best for: Cleaning companies whose inbound leads arrive by phone or form and want instant voice follow-up with automatic booking.
The right pick depends on where your pipeline is actually leaking. If your problem is that ads, creative, and follow-up live with three different vendors and leads go cold between them, a single partner like Worqd solves that with one plan and sub-60-second qualification around the clock. If you're purely outbound and want cleaning-specific prospecting with pay-per-meeting pricing, Chase fits well. CleanWork suits owner-operators who want a cheap cleaning-specific toolkit they run themselves, Cohesive AI covers automated email prospecting at a published price, AiSDR handles researched outbound from $250/month, and Dapta wins on instant voice follow-up for inbound leads. Whatever you choose, the math is the same: cleaning contracts are recurring revenue, and the vendor that responds first wins a disproportionate share of them. Speed to lead isn't a nice-to-have in this industry, it's the whole game. Book a growth call with Worqd, or run a trial with any of these, but do something about your response time this quarter. Your competitors already are.
Frequently asked questions
What makes Worqd different from the other options on this list?
Most entries here are tools you buy and run yourself. Worqd is a done-for-you growth agency that operates the whole funnel: paid ads, SEO, creative testing, AI SDR follow-up, and old-lead reactivation, all under one plan and one report. Its AI SDRs qualify every inquiry in under 60 seconds, 24/7, and hand calls to a real person with full context when needed. It also claims a 4 to 7x conversion lift over unmanaged follow-up at 70 to 80% lower cost per qualified conversation than a traditional SDR team. If you'd rather own the tooling, a platform option may suit you better.
How fast does an AI SDR need to respond to cleaning leads?
Faster than most operators think. Harvard Business Review research found companies that contacted leads within an hour were roughly seven times more likely to qualify them, and the odds improve further inside five minutes. Industry data cited by cleaning-software vendors suggests businesses lose a large share of leads when follow-up takes more than five minutes. Facility managers often collect several quotes at once, so the first credible response usually frames the whole decision. That's why sub-minute response, like Worqd's under-60-second qualification or Dapta's instant voice calls, matters more than any other single feature.
Are AI SDR tools a good fit for small cleaning companies?
Yes, if you match the tool to your budget and capacity. AiSDR starts at $250/month and Chase starts at $39/month plus $250 per meeting that shows up, both accessible for small operators. Cohesive AI at $500/month plus $75 setup suits companies with a bit more spend. The real question is who takes the meetings. If you're the only person selling, prioritize tools that book straight into your calendar and hand off cleanly, and consider a done-for-you partner like Worqd if you'd rather not manage campaigns yourself.
Can these tools work with the CRM I already use?
Most of them can. Worqd's pipeline recovery and AI SDR services work with your existing CRM with no platform switch. AiSDR and Dapta sync interactions back to your CRM records in real time, and Cohesive AI includes a built-in CRM plus exports compatible with popular external CRMs. Chase connects to Google and Microsoft calendars for booking. Always confirm the specific integration with the vendor before signing, since support varies by plan.
Should a commercial cleaning company use a cleaning-specific tool or a general AI SDR?
Cleaning-specific tools like Chase and CleanWork already know who awards cleaning contracts, what a walkthrough is, and how the contract renewal calendar works, so you skip the learning curve. General tools like AiSDR and Dapta are often cheaper and more flexible, but you supply the industry knowledge, messaging, and qualification rules. A hybrid approach works too: some operators use a general AI SDR for speed-to-lead and a specialist for outbound prospecting. If you want industry fluency without managing any of it yourself, that's where a partner like Worqd fits.
What does AI SDR and lead conversion service cost in 2026?
Pricing spans a wide range. AiSDR starts at $250/month, Cohesive AI charges $500/month plus a $75 setup fee, Chase charges $39/month plus $250 per qualified meeting, and Dapta, CleanWork, and Worqd all require a conversation for pricing. Done-for-you outbound agencies for cleaning typically run $2,500 to $3,500 per month, according to industry buyer guides. Compare cost per qualified conversation or per booked walkthrough rather than sticker price, because a cheaper tool that produces fewer real conversations often costs more per contract signed.